Chapter 33 The German reconnaissance plane is coming!
"If so, how capable are our tanks too much? It can be pierced by this small weapon. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info," Swagger said in amazement.
"Yes, maybe times have changed. Or maybe the tank has a whole new purpose. Nicklaus sighed helplessly.
Hearing this, Swagge couldn't help but fall into deep thought. The weapons were modeled after the Soviets, and they were also equipped with rocket-boosted grenades, which made it easy for even the most ordinary soldier to destroy a tank at close range. All they lost was a grenade, and they lost a very expensive tank! This price-performance ratio speaks for itself.
Now that both sides are armed with such new weapons, how long can the absolute superiority of the German tank armored cluster exist?
Forget it, don't think about it. "At least our troops are equipped with this, and they can easily destroy the Soviets' tanks, and their tank groups are facing new pressure!" Swagger followed in the footsteps of the master, and this was the end of the brief review.
The two did not rest, and that night, they split the newly arrived troops and replenished them to the original troops that were lacking in strength. Including Nicklaus's No. 3 assault gun, these crews should theoretically be assigned to infantry regiments, so much so that each infantry company had to have one.
However, the tank units remained at the division headquarters, and Nicklaus was mainly responsible for guarding the perimeter of the division headquarters and the town of Ironfort. For no other reason, it is necessary to avoid the recurrence of tragedies like Kuta Town once and for all.
That night, here in the German 715th Division, division commander Scholz held a small welcome banquet. He ordered all the battalion-level officers under his command, except those who had important military affairs, to attend the meeting.
At this dinner, he raised his glass and spoke passionately about what he had seen and heard in the afternoon.
"Gentlemen, today we are also equipped with a completely new weapon. An ordinary soldier has the ability to fight against tanks from a distance, and it can also bombard enemy positions like a howitzer. It is more mobile and powerful than a mortar. If we had been equipped with this rocket-propelled grenade earlier, Homnich would have been captured long ago. ”
Again, it was two months ago.
Hoffman and Flored held their glasses, which were fine French red wines, but for both of them, they were like bitter water, like blood.
In that battle, Hoffman was the absolute main attacker. "In that operation, we also encountered rocket strikes from the Soviets, and armored vehicles were destroyed by the attack," he said. I'm afraid that even if we are armed with new rocket-boosted grenades, we will not be able to maintain absolute superiority over the enemy. ”
This was a bit out of place, and Schultz frowned and said, "Your words are not right. We now have the Air Force, and the ground forces have increased the tank battalion of Nicklaus. In fact, we also have the ability to blitz on the swamps. ”
But swamps, as the name suggests, are a nightmare for armored vehicles. Hoffman shut up, and he didn't want the pleasant atmosphere to add unpleasant noise, or even arguments.
Anyway, the arrival of new troops, the large-scale replenishment of half-track armored vehicles, and the addition of jeeps made troop communications and even troop transportation more efficient. And the addition of tank units is bound to be an overwhelming advantage for ordinary guerrillas.
To hell with the devils in the swamps to the south!
After this welcome banquet, Schultz did not announce the disbandment. Since several regiment commanders have come, they simply went to the conference room of the division headquarters to inform them of the next plan of the Air Force.
It turned out that the high command of the German army in Belarus already knew about the presence of an airfield in the swamp. There is indeed a strong guerrilla force there, and they hide in the woods like voles hiding underground, and it is really difficult to spot. But it's the airport, it's not able to be transported.
In the conference room, Schultz said: "The air force group responsible for assisting us in the operation, their reconnaissance planes have all arrived. Its first task was to conduct reconnaissance of the southern marshes, and once the exact location of the enemy's machine guns was discovered, air strikes against it would begin. As long as we are cut off from possible air support from the enemy, this group of partisans, even if they are very combative, without the assistance of the Soviet authorities, they will be like five or six-month-old babies who have been forcibly weaned, or trees without roots, and all that awaits them is death. ”
So, are they really going to die? Swagger also believed that the destruction of the airfield would weaken the enemy's strength for a long time. They may or may not be trapped. The future, who knows?
In this way, the German reconnaissance planes began their first round of reconnaissance operations after the wind and snow stopped.
These are light reconnaissance planes that do not fly high, they are slow, and at worst they do not have the ability to fly at night.
On February 3rd, it was a quiet day. The airfield in Catfish Village was still peaceful here, and no one could have imagined that the German reconnaissance planes were about to fly here until there was a buzzing sound in the sky.
The first to discover the situation was the Soviet outpost outside the village of Heitu, which was twenty kilometers away. Low-flying reconnaissance aircraft in the sky, whose tracks are exposed by their buzzing. The information immediately reached the division headquarters of the blacksmith village, and Yang Mingzhi was taken aback.
Both Yevlov and Yang Mingzhi were very vigilant, and they immediately gave orders to the arsenal. Rygushkov received the order, and he immediately demanded that the workers stop heating the blast furnace and stop all smelting work. It has only one purpose, not to let the smoke reveal its tracks.
The same order applies to canteens, and even residential areas prohibit fires.
These low-flying reconnaissance planes soon flew over the village of Heitu, and unfortunately, the collective farm was exposed. The information is immediately recorded by the pilot, and people on the ground are immediately aware of this.
Volmansky saw that these planes were not at all Soviet models, and the Soviet troops were already too far from here. So they can only be enemy aircraft! In addition to reporting the information observed here to the division headquarters, he immediately organized the soldiers and immediately opened fire on the reconnaissance plane!
Suddenly, several machine guns were the first to fire. The bullet apparently hit the reconnaissance plane, and the daring pilot immediately pulled the plane up to avoid the attack on the ground.
It is a great pity that Yang Mingzhi did not train these militiamen in any tactics of flattening and beating planes. Such as what is necessary to estimate the ability to shoot enemy aircraft in advance.
This time, the Germans dispatched four reconnaissance planes, and so far only this one has been attacked. It has a few more shells on its wings, but the aluminum fuselage has not been significantly affected, and the fuel tanks buried in the wings are still intact.
Bullets whizzed behind it, and the plane was still flying. Now pilots have more information to record, namely that beneath the woods is the lair of the guerrillas.
The pilot already knew too much, and he was bold enough to move on, after all, his mission was to find the airfield of the Soviets.
The plane slowly flew away, and the machine gun crews did not knock him down, and Volmansky was very angry and roared at his own people: "You have consumed too many bullets, and this damn German still flew away!" If you only have this military literacy, how can you survive on the battlefield! ”
Most of them remained silent, and only Anatoly, the battalion commander currently stationed here, spoke.
He did not defend the soldiers, because these people were not trained in air warfare, and this was the case with his own troops and militia. His words were even more prescient: "Comrade village chief, this is a reconnaissance plane. I think we have to think about the future, since the enemy has bombed Homnitch, they may well have bombed us too! The purpose of this reconnaissance plane must have been to find us, and I think my concerns must be communicated to the division commander at once. Also, Comrade Village Chief, you must begin to organize the evacuation of the villagers. ”
Volmansky was taken aback, and the situation became dangerous. A reconnaissance plane flew away, and the next one could be those dive bombers! In this part of the village, especially the cutting down of trees, and the fact that a large number of cattle and sheep are being driven by the villagers to graze (the snow melts a little, and the livestock arch the snow to eat the grass roots), all this has led to the exposure of the village.
He didn't dare to slack off at all, and immediately returned to the village committee and ordered the radioman to report to the blacksmith village immediately! (To be continued.) )